Category Archives: British Columbia

Transportation Safety Board sends investigators to B.C. after tour boat runs aground
Canada's Transportation Safety Board says it is looking into what happened when a sightseeing vessel ran aground in the waters off Metro Vancouver last weekend. The agency says investigators have been...
Aug 08, 2025

Resident still nervous despite returning after evacuation from home for B.C. wildfire
A Vancouver Island artist who was evacuated from her home studio near an out-of-control wildfire says she remains nervous despite being allowed back this week. Ina-Griet Raatz-von Hirschhausen, whose ...
Aug 08, 2025

Campbell River woman handed 13-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
CAMPBELL RIVER - A lengthy jail sentence was applied to a woman who pleaded guilty in connection to highly publicized drug busts in Campbell River. Leah Marie Lewis, 57, was handed 13 years behind bar...
Aug 08, 2025

B.C. to require all schools to be equipped with AEDs, naloxone
Every school in British Columbia will soon be required to be equipped with two types of lifesaving tools.The B.C. Ministry of Education has issued a new mandate requiring schools to have automated ext...
Aug 08, 2025

One hurt in series of pellet gun attacks targeting pedestrians in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating a series of pellet or airsoft gun attacks targeting pedestrians on public roads. Investigators say the attacks happened on Wednesday between ...
Aug 08, 2025

Murderer who reportedly kissed prison manager allowed to return to minimum security
PORT COQUITLAM - The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered a first-degree murderer be moved back to a minimum-security prison after he challenged his transfer to a higher-security institution for allegedly k...
Aug 07, 2025

Sam Ross Creek wildfire under control; evacuation alert rescinded
FRASER LAKE -Update: The Regional District has lifted the evacuation alert for the Sam Ross Creek fire and have lifted the evacuation order for the Dorman Lake wildfire and replaced it with an alert. ...
Aug 07, 2025

Poilievre says of B.C. Premier Eby that 'one man can't block' pipeline proposal
CALGARY - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadians, including British Columbians, want a new oil pipeline and Premier David Eby can't be allowed as one man to block the project. Poilievre s...
Aug 07, 2025

CP NewsAlert: B.C.'s 2024 deficit comes in under forecast at $7.3B
VICTORIA - British Columbia's final deficit for the fiscal year has come in at $7.3 billion, $564 million lower than the original projected number in Budget 2024. The final deficit is also about $1.8 ...
Aug 07, 2025

Wildfires decline in B.C. with rain, cooler weather, but heat forecasted to return
The number of wildfires burning in British Columbia is on the decline after more than doubling during a spate of hot, dry conditions and thunderstorms that produced tens of thousands of lightning stri...
Aug 07, 2025